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In Habits of a Peacemaker: 10 Habits to Change Our Potentially Toxic Conversations into Healthy Dialogues (Shadow Mountain Publishing; 9/3/24) Steven T. Collis offers a practical, humbling path to better, more genuinely productive, and empathetic conversations. As a law professor specializing in the First Amendment and a leading expert on civil discourse, Collis has built his career navigating some of the most divisive issues facing our world today. He’s bridged gaps between people across the ideological spectrum: academics, diplomats, foreign and domestic judges, high schoolers, religious leaders, college and graduate students, devout churchgoers, devoted atheists and agnostics, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and those who believe in traditional notions of sexuality—essentially, people who are perhaps the most poised to disagree with each other. Habits of a Peacemaker shows us many of the keys to creating civil discourse between theoretically opposing parties. These include reframing disagreement as a